男兒豈無劍

 

男兒豈無劍?

因何不讀書?

富裕和平日,

騰飛有藏儲。

(Translation)

it needs a sword to be a man

it needs reading to be something

in the age of peace plus wealth

it needs a gut to fly

Why is it not Easy to Shift a Paradigm?

 9329 Why is it not easy to shift a paradigm? 20211228

You might still remember the old story of paradigm. It was happened during or shortly after the 2nd World War. The captain of a big ship was steering around a peaceful sea and suddenly he had found a light spot was directly in front of his ship. And the spot did not move for a while, that meant they were colliding. The captain was nervous and send a signal telling the light spot to move aside. He thought his ship was big and the spot had to move away. Its the rule of the sea for smaller ships to make way for a bigger one. But the light spot returned a signal requesting him to move instead. He was a bit annoyed and send a signal again, "We are an aircraft carrier, please turn aside." The light spot quickly answered: "We are a lighthouse."

The scenario had changed suddenly in the captain's mind and he shifted his paradigm and moved away as fast as he could be. 

However, some paradigms are not so easy to shift. 

it is a kind of much stronger scenario. Some people can easily change their faith, but not able to shift away from a super wrong paradigm. 

For example, the concept of "enemy".  99% of the people from the Western civilization had heard about the teaching of "love your enemy", however, almost none of them can understand and love their enemies instead of hating them. It happened not in a short time, but lasted for two thousand years until now. It is absolutely rare for someone to love his enemy.   

People simply cannot shift from a hate mode to a love mode. It is not a short time.  It has been lasting for a long time of two thousand years.

It is same as the captain, he was steering his ship with his gun pointing at the light spot yet he will not believe the spot was not his enemy. 

And the spot was not his friend either. He was doing something unknown and was against his will.

Then what am I aiming at? If that was not an enemy nor a friend? 

People simply cannot and will not shift his scenario in such a case.

It was extremely difficult for anyone to realise the true scenario of the picture. 

What is my target? What am I fighting for? 

The most difficult part about the concept of "enemy" is not the "enemy" itself. There is a much bigger picture on top of the concept. None could understand the term "peace" since the early beginning of the Western culture. 

It was almost until the year 1945 when the two World Wars had ended and people had suddenly found that they were in peace.

A grand-peace is ahead of us humans since the world wars.

However, humans did not notice that they will be rich if a grand peace is achieved.

Peace is wealth. Only in a completely peaceful situation then the wisdoms could have a chance to achieve the next aim for human beings. Countries were still fighting. They did not see the wealth is coming with the peace. The concept of "enemy" will have become redundant only when the real peace-plus-wealth situation happens. 

May be in future  we would discover that our aim is not "wealth" but something more than money. And we need to shift our minds again by then. 

Now, it is important to get into the age of wealth. 

And it was not funny that the captain was aiming not at the lighthouse, but his own purse. He is doing things to make himself poor. He will shift into a higher paradigm to sail in the world of money as soon as he had discovered the truth.  

 

 

What is the meaning of “Peace” in Christmas?

 9328 What is the meaning of "peace" in Christmas? 20211224

It is Christmas eve again. It is time for a very silent night. May be there is snow outside and you are warm inside. And suddenly it occured to me that, what is the real meaning of peace?. "May peace be with you", was the blessing Jesus would give his disciples. I always doubt that the Chinese translation of the word "peace" was wrong. They would translate it as "safe". The blessing would become "May safe be with you" and it could be a good reminder for us to think deeply about the word "peace". 

Does it mean the same as "world peace"? Does it mean a situation without war? Does it mean a situation we need not to blame others? Does it mean we should love our enemies? Or, does it mean only for a special time like Christmas when you are enjoying a good moment in the house? 

Yes peace is important today. It is more than a situation without war, because it is a starting point for wealth also. The age of wealth must be an age of peace. And it is only in a peaceful situation that the wisdom of mankind can be fully developed and common wealth could be really achieved. In such a sense, peace is important and urgent for the economy. 

And peace could be a mindset of wisdom also. Only those with peace but not a blame in mind could have the joy to think freely about a nice future ahead of us all. 

Why Peace is Possible only Now ？

 9327 Why peace is possible only now  20211218

We need to know what is a war and what constitutes a war. The Iraq war happened twenty years ago might give a hint for us. And that kinds of war could be the last one we could find on earth. 

War is a decision based on the believe that this war could be won and losing is impossible. This is the first condition to constitute a war.

And the believe was from a kind of calculation that one side is much more powerful than the other side. This is the second condition. 

The third condition is need or greed. When one side need urgently the land and resources from the other side, or even when the need is not more than the greed, still greedy wars could happen. 

And the fourth condition is never to be forgotten: that war needs blood. May be there would be a war of robots one day; but still, it will create hatred. And hatred could be bloody in return. Because war is not a chess game. Winners could take over other people's land and lives. There will be a war if the need or greed is so huge that people are willing to give their blood for it, war will happen. For example, safety or the pride of a nation is a honorable need, when you need to protect your country, you are willing to fight. In this sense, blood will suddenly become sacred and war is unavoidable. 

War is not a complicated matter. First you have the faith to win. Second you have the power to overcome. Third you have the need or greed. Fourth you are willing to sacrifice.  

The fifth point is most important of all, war is hatred. You will hate your enemy and not to love them. 

And suddenly the planet seems waken up from a dark night. There is sunshine both from the East and the West. 

As the most important conditions for war on our planet are missing and peace is possible the first time ever when we humans were born. 

We could see confrontation of similar powers now. No one is able to win the unwanted war if it is ever started. The planet had become balanced and will be completely balanced soon and wars will not be easy to happen.   

What will happen is the coming of the age of wealth. 

People had discovered that they will be surely rich if they can co-operate with each other in the whole planet. And the wisdom and knowledges will be greatly increased in the coming days, when humans will found they are a species more able then before. It will be a moment of true happiness and people had discovered that almost all the older problems were from a spirit of wars. Those were miserable years of hatred and mistrust that had created most of the problems for humans.  

We will not be living like a drifting bird, but an able species. All other problems like crimes and education and health care etc. will be settled more easily in a peaceful and co-operational and loving spirit in this planet. 

And it is important to keep in your sacred mind that you will be working for the peace for mankind from now on. It is the first important mission for a species of human. 

You will find strength and unbelievable power of wisdom in your mind instantly. 

As for the common folks, please be prepared that you will be rich. 

Why the Wealth should not be Delayed?

 9326 Why the wealth should not be delayed?  20211215

The age of wealth is a reality, and people need not to care how it comes into reality. You don't need to know how the pyramid was built and how the two World-Wars were fought and even, you don't need to know a volcano eruption happened 75,000 years ago in Indonesia had killed 60% of the total population on earth which was sixty million by then. What was left was twenty-four million survivors on the whole planet and that was enough for human evolution. All that is not important now though you may wonder why the Heavens are not intervening and there was no intervention. That is another important question as no intervention doesn't meant you will not get help. Mind-communication is a direction of our evolution. You can communicate with other people on earth or, to communicate with the Universe.   

Now the age of wealth is already here and smart people have already felt it. Humans will experience a time of comfort and survival not a threat like the old days when people were always starving. Major wars could be avoided, peace could be sustained.  

Yet more important is what will happen in the age of wealth. 

The first question is the wealth should not be delayed. The age of wealth depends on only one thing now. The other things such as science, culture, markets, etc. are all secondary compare to the total peace on earth. 

Humans need peace.

If the US and China can be friendly and get together always to find out solutions for the whole world, then the age of wealth is real and will not be delayed. It could be a good starting point. 

Why it should not be delayed? It is because humans need urgent and huge capital to face problems. Because we do not know what will happen next.

Global warming might be urgent, the globe is more than warming, it is burning. There are lots of methods to deal with it, yet the humans are not in one single entity to do things. We are not prepared. When every one is busy working on his own problem, important bigger issues cannot be solved. 

For example, in case the globe needs a new river, to bring sea water into the deserts to help water evaporate, yet that could not be done for any one single country. 

It seemed an easy thing to pump sea water to change the weather. Yet it needs a total effort to do it. 

Humans are too keen to build killing devices. 

There are lots of war-planes and tanks on earth. Yet it is rare to hear a self- driving fire-prevention-tank which can run into the burning forest and create a fire separation path. And there is no fire-extinguish-missiles. There are very few life-saving-robots which can go into high building to save lifes. Helicopter can only drop buckets of water into the fire but not fire-extinguishing-bomb. 

It is because, humans are not determined to face the lost of forests.

The surface of earth is so hot that we might one day be all living underground to get away from the heat and leave the land to grow forests to keep the air cool. Above ground forests can help the earth to recycle. Underground cities are urgently needed. We need hugh digging machines and lots of investments for the underground. Advanced military factories have lots of works to do now. If highways and cities are replaced by forests, you can expect a nice planet is ahead of us. 

Lots of problems needed attention. Like the nuclear leakage in Japan and Russia need global help and not to leave it unattended. There are famines in many places and those are our treasured fellow beings. Humans are still under the threat of starving and it should not had happened. With the coming wealth at hand, humans need to know what is urgent and what could be done later.  

All it need is a simple start of talking. 

When humans can start talking, all the older problems like how should a country be managed or how to live a life without the threat of virus, and even very basic philosophical ideas can be exchanged. 

That meant we are in a state of love not hate. 

And that meant humans do have a hope. 

Why is it Necessary to be Friendly with Xi ?

 9325  Why is it necessary to be friendly with Xi ?  20211211

It is completely wrong to take Xi as the enemy. Situations in the whole world is changed, according to calculation, China will be richest in the coming decades; but it might be a wrong calculation.  Things will be going much faster than expected. China might be rich in the next ten years, or even five years. Smart people will trust their own intuition more than the scholars. And it would never be wrong to be well prepared.

Why Xi?

Some people are taking him as the number one enemy and that is more than wrong; it is fatal. 

Because, China is not a solid country yet. China is composed of different division of thoughts and the under currents are so huge that sudden change is possible. 

When people in the United States are supporting the under currents with ample supplies of money and resources, they could never believe that if one day the under currents have grasped the power and become rulers of China, they will be obedient no more. By the time, the United States will be facing a much bigger power and will be weaker to say anything with the super power they are encountering. 

That is the true scenario you could thought of. Will your boss obey you? It is the most absurd thing to imagine. You have created a boss and your boss will be arriving soon.  

Why should the United States be friendly with Xi?

Why Xi?

It is because, Xi is moderate. Xi is humble and Xi is not radical like the right-wing powers in the States. If one day China had changed into Chi-merica, and be ruled by a party of self-interest minded people, they would in turn take over the position of a boss and the United States will be their first worry and they will start beating, guarding and limiting the new enemy which is the older United States. 

Time is running extremely fast. Xi will be getting old and so does President Biden. History will not have the patience to produce another two clever people like Xi and Biden. They are more or less the same type of people and history will not produce another pair for the world. 

We need to beat the time, not our so-called enemies. 

It is urgent time to create peace, not war. 

    

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Will There be Fortune in the South America?

 9324  Will there be fortune in the South America?  20211209

When the early colonists sailed across the ocean to reach the Southern part of the Americas, they saw fortune. Vast land, impenetrable forests, long rivers, and all kinds of different people. It is a fortune to be made here. They had brought many things to the land. Some knowledge and lots of sadness. The land was looted and rubbed because of the fortune. 

And soon the land was forgotten. Except some small countries who were not obeying and created a threat for the far away rich countries. Distance political arms will arrive.                                            

Important is: Will there be still a fortune? 

No one could see fortune in the format of yesterday. 

Situations had changed and the age of wealth has come. And the Motto is the same:

If you can make other people happy, then you will be happy. That could be explained in another way:

If you can make other people rich, then you will be rich.

We can expect a long and modern high-speed rail built from the far end of Argentine to Canada, going through Mexico and the United States, of course. 

To build a high-speed rail in the United States is not easy. Too many considerations would need decades to debate. Yet to build one in Mexico is much easier. The point is whether people could see the inner truth of wealth. The age of wealth would come only in a peaceful world. And you can expect not only a rail, but the virus will be gone when minds have changed. This is a give away era, not a take away era. Fortunes could be created not looted. The wasted resources in the Americas will soon wake up. When every one is happy, the planet will see sunshine once more.

Who could bring fortune to the world? 

The answer is in the minds.   

How Easy is the Age of Wealth?

 9323 How easy is the age of wealth 20211205

The age of wealth is a time when all people on earth are really rich. They are not only rich in money, but rich in mind and culture. 

And the age of richness is already here. It is like two great rivers coming to a meeting point, they are already here, all the need is to remove a little stumbling block. 

US and China are getting together within an arm's reach. All problems will be naturally solved. And other problems like Russia and Ukraine are subject to the basic relation of US-China. All of them will be true friends in a short time. The next bigger problem is in the Middle-east. If problems like the relation of US and China could be solved, then the Middle-east problem is easy. 

How easy could that be? 

The motto is one line only: If you can make other people happy, then you will be happy. 

For example, how can the US make the Mexicans happy? If Mexicans are happy, they will not create immigration problem. And that is extremely easy: to use the money for the US-Mexico Wall to build a high-speed rail for them, their economy problem will be eased and immigrants are busy working to build the railways. A Wall will not create money, it creates problem, but a high-speed rail could do things otherwise. 

And the high-speed rail can go North into the US and Canada, and reach to the South till the end of Argentine. It could be another gold-mine like the old days in Alaska.  All the wasted resources in South America will be waken up.  Who is paying for the construction fee?

 You can expect that is extremely easy when the relations are turned from the war feeling into a friendly mood. It is only a simple matter.

No one wants to fight in the age of wealth. That is for sure. 

Everyone wants to be rich; and it will help the minds rich, too. 

A smart planet is a rich planet. 

 

Are we prepared for the coming Age of Wealth？

 9322 Are we prepared for the coming Age of Wealth？20211202

 In the coming age of wealth, countries will be much richer, and people will be much older. It is more than an age of wealth, it is an age of wisdom, too. One recent finding in Hong Kong discovered that, people born after the year 2020 will have an average of time span of 100 years in Hong Kong. People are not prepared to accept the news. If they can vote, they will veto it. As people are too worried about how to care the aged people, they have not found the benefit of it. 

People are able to free themselves from the sex pressure for the first time. They don't have to worry getting sex urges fulfilled. They are not living for sex. They would have more time to think, and are free from the pressures. As all sex pressures are not only sex pressures, it is actually materialistic. Money pressure is another form of sex pressure. And now people are all in their older form of survival, they are experienced people of 70's, 80's, 90's and 100's. They are not teenagers anymore. They would be wiser and can think more deeply.   

What will happen in the age of wealth?

Yes, people are much richer, much wiser and more peaceful. 

To stop the wars are the first step towards the age of wealth. Yet it is far not enough to create wealth. A peaceful planet is good for the market but not good enough. 

Countries need to become real brothers and sisters, they need to have a deep trust to each other and can combine all their effort to create wealth. As wealth is more than money. Wealth includes the wealth of wisdom which needs unlimited flow of the minds all over the world. 

They need to trust each other and that meant they are really loving each other. To love an unknown person is easier than to love a second country. Countries are now treating each other as potential threats, not trusted friends. All will be different if counries are friends not enemies. 

Are we prepared to become rich? 

Are we prepared to be friends, not enemies?

That would be the first step towards an age of wealth. 

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Will there be good news in the next few months?

 9321 Will there be good news in the next few months? 20211123

There is a concern among the US investors these days that the interest rates will not be very useful to fight against the coming stagflation.  

Figures are frightening. Inflation seems uncontrollable. 

The total situation will be turning downwards in a couple of months if prices keep going up and no measure is taken to beat them. Stagflation seems obvious. 

However, the case should be seen from the other side. 

Global economy will be going up in the next few years, due to the peaceful encounter of the US and China. Can the markets wait for a few years more? When every one is expecting a change in a few months not a few years.  

The answers are positive. Its because, most of the prices are under influence from the Trump administration and it is the main reason of inflation. Once the tariffs are gone, prices will drop magically. It is not only a problem of prices. Its a matter of direction. If the direction is changed, moods will follow. When everyone is happy, there will be a bloom. 

What will happen in the next few years?

 9320 What will happen in the next few years？20211122

It will happen within months, if every thing is smooth.  Global economy will be up again. And it will not need a very long time, 3 years at most, US economy will be going up in a speed no one can expect. And of course, China economy will be same. 

The change is due to the peaceful encounter of US and China. When the two countries are in good mood working together, everything will be fine for all the world. 

And it is the only way out for the whole world. 

All the brains will be activated and numerous inventions will be helping the world people to get away from the virus threat and more importantly, every country can have a better chance to build their own economy. 

Fighters will not see the scenery in the boxing wing. Once they have stopped fighting, they will have a better view about future and the grand Universe. Co-ordination and true communication will be built only in a mood of trust. 

And mutual trust is not easy. It needs lots of hard work and patience. 

However, economy will be going up even if people do not trust each other. 

Good time will be here if they stop fighting. And better time will soon arrive if people can trust each other. This is the most difficult part and I am not sure if it will happen within the next one hundred years, however, we need to remain positive to be certain that humans are wise enough to have a resolution to learn to trust each other. 

Good days are coming very soon. 

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I am happy yet worried

 I am happy yet worried with my two guitars.  One voice, two guitars. Can I have some good music?

How do we observe the planet？

 9319 How do we observe the planet 20211113

Some times you only need to see a little bird, and then you will see the whole planet.  Swallows are seen less in Hong Kong these years. This is the observation from the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. They count the birds and their nests from all over the island and had found the swallows are less in the previous several years. 

It seems to be not a good news, however, we need to have a faith about the planet and trust that the planet would have a healing and growing ability and the effort of one species like humans on earth cannot and will not be able to destroy the planet. 

Swallows come and go. And even the butterflies are also coming and going. Some of the butterflies can travel around the earth and seem to be more efficient fliers then the human airplanes. Can't you believe a butterfly can fly better then a huge plane? Yet it is true. And of course the swallows can fly better also. We are in a lower level of thinking ability, if compare with the planet. We have a name for such lower level situation: "unimaginable". Because it is out of our thinking ability and if one can admit it and the openning holes would always be there for such person. You cannot even to imagine it even in your dream.  However, we have the heart to prepare ourselves, just to observe and think more clearly. We can fly through the holes. 

What are we going to do then?

The most important thing is to stop fighting and start observing. The scenery is so beautiful not to be missed. 

Relax a little and discover a lot. 

What is the intention to release Meng Wang Zhou？

 9318 What is the intention to release Meng Wang Zhou 20211106

I do hope that the intention is not only to release a chaptured woman, but to release a kind of good will, which might be explained as the most important change in the American heart. One can expect that not all the policies are out of calculation, but the most important one must be coming through a heart. 

The serious question is how can humans deal with the coming difficulties. If the powers are all busy at fighting with each other, problems like global warming are but a small scale incident, and more serious one would be in the economic field. If one of the countries suddenly found unsolvable problems in their books then all of us will suffer.The problems might be in the finance books, not in the atmosphere. 

Fighters in the boxing wing would never have time to see the scenery outside. Only those with a heart can feel the difference. 

Problems would not be only carbon emissions or virus out-breaks. It came from the Industrial revolution hundreds of years ago. Humans have only one set of science to manage the whole world. Can we have another set of  science to march into the future? 

That need the total effort of all humans working together and helping each other. As long as people are fighting, there will be no improvement. Humans need to co-operate not to fight. 

Why is Meng released?  One can see the shadow of one American heart whose name is Beau Biden. And if that is true, the case could be the most significant change in American history.  

 

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Why did Boris Johnson insist on the Doomsday concept?

 

Please refer to my older article as the following,  actually it was only posted recently:

9301  What is the basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization? 

(2021 .7 .28)

There is no such concept as a “Doomsday” or a “Last Judgement” in the thoughts of the Chinese Civilization. They have never thought of an end of all mankind. In the Chinese concept, to grow is the greatest virtue of the Universe.  Growing is an unending process which will carry on without end. 

Chinese civilization is different from the West. Most of the Western religions believe that there is an end of the world. Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim have similar concepts about the end and a final judgement.  The first concept was from the Zoroastrians. They were from the Persian empire when Zoroastrianism was first developed. And the thought about the end of the world spread around the world since. They all believed that the world and the human race was created by a God and will be destroyed by the same God. ( please note: a “God” is not the same as a “Creator” in Chinese culture.)

There is an unexpected result of this doomsday concept. That meant there was no future for human race. 

One of the most imminent and direct result is that humans will not have a sense of hope. They would seek material comfort instead. Money is the only shorter term of safety for them. 

And this thought is the basic problem of the Western minds. It is more than any other harm to the minds. 

Central problem of the West is that each and every people is a “self”. There will not be any guarantee for the single units in the society. And the world is going to nowhere.  There will be no comfort for anyone. The lucky ones will have a family, yet families will be broken sooner or later when the time is passed. Anyone will be a lonely self when the final destruction comes. Human race will not be a comfort for them as they believe humans will be destroyed soon. And it needs not a religious people to believe that. Even the non-religious people cannot avoid this common believe when the scientists keep warning of a global warming or other mishaps which is bound to happen. It is darkness over the heads of Western people.

One of the symbols will be the street sleepers in major United States cities. They have some money from the Government and they are not hungry yet they have no homes and have to sleep on the streets. There are no sense of safety or happiness for them. They are the grey clouds of the Western capitalism. 

 

Capitalism is a system of  “self”.  Capitalism is composed of single units.  A sense of individual self is basic mindset of the West.  Yet it is very satirical to see similar pictures in China.  One of the forums run by the Chinese science people name their forums “SELF”, just to promote a sense of “self-respect” like the Beijing University people. (please refer to the attached photos)

Basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization is to grow, they do not believe in doomsdays, and they are choosing a cooperative way to organize their society. Socialism is a form of mutual help and love. 

And to grow means to evolve. The course of evolution will be a long and unending process. Humans will have a bright future. It’s a picture beyond imagination. A new revelation will be ahead of our time and tell us what the future will be. And that meant hope. Hope is real when people started to give up selfish thoughts and started to think about working together and loving each other.  And we will get over the shadows of selfish “selfs”. 

* A note from the writer:

Humans are facing a problem of the warming weather, and we need to think.  We are pushed to work together and love each other. It is pointless to insist on the wrong concept of a "Doomsday", which is harmful. And evolution is not limited to the external build up of the bodies, but also our souls. We are growing very fast and  internal links do appear in human minds. We will have a bright and successful future. Any English thinkers could not have forgotten about Charles Darwin and his theory of Evolution, which is also in the process of evolving.  （2021.9.02）

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Why are insects disapppeared?

 

9316  Why are insects disappeared?  20211030 

Summer nights are not the same again. 

I had observed in one hot summer night in 2019 in Hong Kong.  The street lights were always surrounded with small flying insects like your childhood days. However, I discovered suddenly that the insects were disappeared. They were not there in the year 2019 anymore, and then next year you cannot find them, now is 2021, still there were no flying insects around the street lamps at night. 

And I did not notice any news report about that since. Where are all those important specialists gone?  Did they notice the same thing? 

And a friend in the South East Asia islands observed, that the swallows are getting lesser also. And I suddenly realised I have not seen them in Hong Kong for years. When there were no insects,  how can the swallows survive? 

And if there were no swallows, what is next to be gone? 

Is there anyone to tell us what is happening? 

What are we expecting the next things besides the Covid-19 to happen? 

People are too busy.

However, may I remind you to take a little time to walk around and see for yourself.   

When nerves are too tight and things might happen.

Relax a little and discover a lot.

 

 

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Why LOVE is more important than POLITICS ?

 

9315 Why Love is more important than Politics? 20211025

 It is because, good politics is the result of love. 

If there is no love in the politics, then it must be bad politics. 

A summary of the theory of Jesus

 

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This is an old article I have written in 2021.  It is about the major conflict in the Western civilization.  To make it extremely simple,  the conflict is about the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Jesus was the first one who understood  the major problem of the Western civilization.

The problem comes from an ancient bible story:

Humans need only to obey god.

It is a sin not to obey god.

Or you can put it  in another way:   It is a sin not to obey the priests.

And you will be a selected people to  occupy lands and drive away other people.

You're ordered to kill by the priests in the name of God.

Killings  were the major practice of humans by then.

A major concern of Jesus was to correct this idea.

Jesus had been avoiding painfully to criticize about the Old Testament.  He had proposed his idea about love, Yet he had not  try to eliminate the other side of love.   That's why his disciples had put the Old Testament and New Testament together in the same book. The two  Testaments were completely contradictory to each other,  yet they were both inside the bible.

To study the conflicts in the Western civilization,  first we need to study the theory of Jesus.....

(A  summary of the theory of Jesus)

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A difficult question:  What is love?

One of my friends had asked me what is love, and I answered him : 

"You knew it."

All of us knew what is love and it is not necessary to hide yourself and said you don't know. Though few can be sure about what is love. 

Love is a bonding happened between the people who is working for a common goal. The harder the fight, the stronger the bond. Some times the bonding is so strong that people are willing to sacrifice for the other people that they are willing to use up everything even their life and happiness.

Important is the goal. You would need a goal, and the goal must be noble and essential that you would like to achieve the goal at any cost. When you have a common goal, the bonding would be a natural feeling within your group. Sexual love is one of the feeling of the bonding if the loving parties do have a common goal among themselves. If they do not have this common goal, then the love is weak and cannot last long.   

What is a bonding?

It could be a signed contract or a pledge or an oath. Those are all external things. The real bonding is something happened within. You will know each other and you will feel each other. You don't need to say a word and your mind is shared. With the guidance of a shared mind you will act together like dancing. You will be acting within the rhythms and there is beauty among your love. Therefore, love is beautiful and love is a state of well-being that you need it always, though love is not an aim itself.

We can expect the bonding will be improved in the future because of the power of evolution. There must be some unknown connections between human beings. Now we know not much about it. But the connection will be much stronger in future. It is sure.

And we will be seeing a more difficult part about love. 

Jesus the ancient leader of the Western mind had said, you should love your enemy. And why should we love them? 

Do I have some inner bondings with my enemy, too? 

The answer is definitely yes. And it could be a deep secret about the Universe why there are positive and negative sides for everything. If you use a magnet to bond together two pieces of irons, you will have the different polars and the ends of polarities will go together. That is a fact and it is acceptable. What cannot be accepted is that you can never do away any one side of the polars. You can never "eliminate" the negative side, if you do think you are the positive and vice versa. You can only be sured that within your bonding, you will have them. You could avoid being together with the other polar but you cannot get rid of them. You both have the right to survive within the Universe. There are negative elements within your bonding and that is why you should love them, too. That meant if you ever tried to eliminate the other end, you will not be surviving. 

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Why the West is in a status without love?

 

Let us get started with the thought from Jesus who is the origin of the Western mind. Jesus was the sole leader in the West, other leaders like Plato and Socrates were secondary. 

Some of the Western people believed that one day Jesus will be back. Will Jesus be pleased with them?  

This question would have no meaning for some of the Western leaders. They regard Jesus as a historic figure, and they will not take his philosophy as a reference. Western culture has taken Jesus as an important mind leader for the past two millenniums. However, the teachings of Jesus were mostly ignored. Almost all teachings by Jesus had not been fulfilled. Jesus was betrayed not only by one disciple but most of his followers.

Western people had been in an inner conflict since then. They knew what ought to do but they wouldn't do it. Or they could'nt do it.

The question is why. If we cannot explain this puzzle today, more conflicts will be on its way to spread around the world. 

The major contribution of Jesus is the concept of love. Love was a concept not found in the older Greek culture. Love is not mentioned in the Fables of Aesop. Love is a new feeling for the younger generation since the Year 0001. Humans had come to a new era of love since that year. 

Why can’t people love each other? 

The first answer is politics.

 Western love is political and it is far from wisdom. And it would be a deep feeling of sadness that this trend is found in other parts of the world other than the West, and it has been growing since. 

Jesus had two most important thoughts in his lifetime. 

First is that he desires love more than rites (sacrifices). It means  church services is not important, but to love people is.

Why are people going to church? The first purpose should be to love each other while the secondary purpose is to perform the rites.

Religious people will say, to perform the rites is to worship God. Very well then. That means to worship God is not the first priority but to love people is. The most important thing is to love. However, people would doubt that if they were really worshipping God, if they were not loving people. Many of the Old Testaments, if you examine them in this context, you will find them completely wrong:

God will not ask Abraham to kill his son as to love is more important than obeying God. 

And this is the idea of Jesus whom for some reason did not argue with the priests about the Old Testament. 

What is rites? 

If we put that in a modern language, rites is almost the same with politics. Politics has been the dictator for daily life in the West. Politics is the tool for self-interest.

There are politics everywhere: offices, schools, and families. Politics are same as the church rites.

People are not concerned to each other; they do not love each other. The rites eased their minds that they had done their duties. They go to church and do all the rites but they do not love people.

The essence of politics is very much the same as the ancient rites. People will do many things but they will not love each other.  

Love seemed to be a simple matter but the question is why can’t people love each other? Weren't them taught with a wrong message from the very beginning? It might be not. 

And then we had found the second important thought of Jesus. 

The reason why people cannot love each other is that they are not wise. 

Any one wise enough will understand the importance of loving each other.

 However, most people are lacking wisdom. Before his death Jesus had told his disciples that he would send a 'Spirit of Wisdom' to help people to reach truth. This thought about wisdom is neglected in the generation that follows. The purpose of human is not to seek wisdom but to seek material satisfaction. Jesus was betrayed since then. People had chosen politics and materials in the millenniums. 

And we would still ask a question why. Why can’t people pickup wisdom instead. 

And we need to take a note here that the so-called wisdom is not an aim of life. 

Wisdom is but a thinking ability only. It is a tool.  It is not the aim itself. If the cultures in the future take wisdom as an aim, they must be fooling themselves. The 'Spirit of Wisdom' could be a helper or a teacher, but it should not be an aim of the human beings. Church people took the 'Spirit of Wisdom' as God to worship cannot be the idea of Jesus. The concept of 'Trinity' may not be right. It were due to the military might of the early Romans that the concept was spreaded.  

And now we are facing a painful situation. If love is so important, why is it neglected? There must be a reason for it. 

The reason may be related to the course of evolution. Humans are living in a form of individual units for the past two millenniums. They must fight for their individualistic interests, no other will help them if they cannot help themselves. There are no true friends and all others are potential enemies. Capitalism is but a later form of the individual units. In the ancient times when there were no stock markets , people are working on their own survivals only. Love will not be prevailing in a self-centered and self-interest oriented status. It might not be the problem of political systems. People will not know what is politics then. It might be only a ‘pattern' of life in the ancient time. They did not know how to organize the whole community to help each other. They would live like animals and were working for the bread of tomorrow and that is all.  Humans had not been co-operative until recently when a co-operative thought is happening in a new situation other then the West.   

Humans are changing from a self-interested situation to a co-operative situation. And that could be the process of evolution. You will have love in a co-operative way of living. You will have hatred in a hostility way of living. Many of the Western thinkers were supporters of Jesus, however, it was due to this pattern of living that love had become impossible. And the teachings of Jesus will not be obeyed. It was completely dreadful when a nun who was respected by the world and her name was Mother Therea said there is no love in the United States. 

Will you say it is wrong for Jesus to preach love and wisdom if the way of living is self-centered? Of course it is not. The idea of love and wisdom may always be a hope.  The evolution process may be easier for humans with some guidance. When humans have learned to love and choose it as a basic attitude of life, they will be evolving better. 

We are evolving quickly. Many people thought that the course of evolution were slow. But it may not be the case. It will be happening very quickly. The patterns of living will not be the same, and the thoughts will not either. The bonding powers in human brains will be quickly improved. You will know what the others are thinking before they actually express it.  We are getting smarter and smarter and will be able to do many things in a co-operative pattern of life and more importantly, in love more than in politics. 

Love is more important than politics.*

* humans without love will have no wisdom,

everything will be wrong without wisdom. 

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Down Avenue Joffre.………… (a poem)

霞飛有路

                               李察寫於2021年

            霞飛有路落飛霞

            春風呵氣濕萬家

            沾露略嫌聲音小

            路滑苔深數點花

2nd Interview: How can you proof that the burning woods were laughing?

 An old article written in 2008

How can you proof that the burning woods were laughing?

 
怎樣證明木柴是在哈哈大笑？
(問到底 No.7010   2008 0423 )
 
 
    數天之前，寫過一段略為高調的話：
 

         x       x       x
 

　「或者，我們可以跑遠一些，回到五十萬年前，北京人居住的那個洞穴裡，訪問一下，正在燃燒的其中一根木柴。問問他：『你這樣燒，得到甚麼？』
    「他會哈哈大笑：『你看不見嗎？我得到的是光呢。』」
 

        x       x       x
 

    一個讀者來信問：你怎樣在邏輯上証明，木柴是在哈哈大笑？
 

　　這一個問題，李察最初是一笑置之。但往回一想，才知道問題非常嚴重。
 

　　因為，幾乎所有的木柴，都是在哭，而不是在笑。
 

　　貝多芬曾經在遺囑裡解釋他之所以不死的「理由」。他的遺囑裡寫著：．．．是藝術！就只是藝術留住了我。在我尚未把我感到的使命全部完成之前，我覺得不能離開這個世界。這樣我纔捱延著這種悲慘的生活．．．
 

    貝多芬死不瞑目。是一個陌生人，替他蓋上眼瞼的。他的遺書上說，
 

   「噢！ 神明！ 什麼時候我再能在自然與人類的廟堂中感覺到歡樂？ ．．．永遠不？．．．不？．．．噢！這太殘酷了！」參看羅曼羅蘭著傅雷譯的《貝多芬傳：永不屈服的靈魂》
 

    還有那位傻子薛西弗斯，當他每一次默默回到山腳下，不發一語。他是在笑嗎？未必的。他可能在哭。領取諾貝爾獎的卡繆，在研究了許久後，才非常審慎地說：「應該想像，薛西弗斯是快樂的。」
 

   無數的木柴，都悲泣失聲。不說那位卞和了。他的嗚咽，是宇宙中的永恆聲響，是永遠在宇宙中周遊的。還有司馬遷。他被去勢之後，堅持寫作。但他說，他是「腸一日而九迴，居則忽忽若有所亡，出則不知所如往。」他的那一種抑鬱，才是絕對的抑鬱。
 

   再如王安石。他有甚麼笑容？當他被迫退休，在家中每日繞室疾行，望空呻吟，只能看到神州陸沈的情景，當然不會哈哈大笑。
 

   還有悲哀的屈原離騷，不說也吧了。
 

   所能想得到的英雄人物，全都是不笑的。
 

   唯一的問題只是：為甚麼在這樣辛苦的境地裡，他們堅持燃燒？為甚麼他們寧願燃燒？為甚麼他們生活在痛苦之中，但呈獻世人的，卻是「歡樂頌」，是光明，是人生之至美？
 

   到底他們是快樂的嗎？
 
 
   我們同樣可能想像，而且一切人都會絕對相信，如果他們有機會重新再來一次，他們的抉擇，必定相同。就像薛西弗斯那樣的相同。
 

    他們會笑嗎？
 

    這一個問題，來到這裡，我們就會忽然察覺自己的卑下。是的，在我們卑下的俗世心靈裡，無法了解。我們不可能知道，甚麼才是快樂。我們不可能知道，屈原有多快樂，司馬遷有多快樂，貝多芬有多快樂，王安石有多快樂，孫中山有多快樂。他們明明都是愁容滿面的。但我們不知道，他們有多快樂。請原諒李察又再一次搬弄那老土的「層次論」。我們低層次的人，有低層次的快樂。他們高層次的快樂，可能，是不同的。

One must imagine them happy.

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And my mind was still not settled. I returned to the cave again.  I wanted to interview the fire wood one more time, just to ask them, if they were really happy. 

What did I see? 

They were laughing like mad.  What a fool I was.  I need not to ask again.

 
 
 
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(本文貼出日期： 2008.4.22    香港時間： 8:35 pm)